Number 3 in the long franchise of Freddie films is set in a secure medical facility where traumatised teens with a morbid fear of sleep are counselled and doped up by sceptical adults. That is until Nancy (from the original film) joins the staff team and, with her personal experience of the supernatural fiend, uses the special powers that the teens possess in their dream lives to fight the nightmares. Gloriously over-the-top, this sequel is worth a look if not just for the pleasure of watching a find out more...

Detective Bun was recognised as a talented criminal profiler until he sliced off his right ear to offer it as a gift at his chief's farewell party. Branded as mad and discharged from the force, he has lived in seclusion with an imaginary wife ever since. Bun has the ability to 'see' a person's inner personalities, subconscious desires, emotions and mental state and, when the police gun of a missing policeman is linked to several heists and murders, he is recalled to duty by former protégé Inspec find out more...

When Walter Sparrow is given a book called 'The Number 23' by his wife he becomes convinced that the events and characters contained within mirror his own life and that the number 23 has a sinister and insidious meaning. Terrified that he is destined to follow the same murderous path as the novel's protagonist, Walter embarks on a paranoid odyssey to find the author and unravel the truth. A rather pedestrian plot is lifted by a good performance by Carrey, stylish cinematography and an intriguing find out more...

Five builders enter the desolate and ominous Danvers state mental hospital on a two week contract. Though the hospital has long closed it still holds tormented memories and the men, each of whom have a dark secret of their own, are entering the merciless jaws of hell. "Session 9" is a class psychological horror, dripping in atmosphere, well acted, originally plotted and relentlessly unnerving. find out more...

Heather Mason and her father have been evading the dark forces that years ago took her mother. On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, plagued by nightmares and Christopher's disappearance, Heather discovers that her presumed identity is false, leading her to an alternate dimension existing in the strange town of Silent Hill, and a cult led by Claudia Wolf. A d find out more...

Psychiatrist Sam Foster takes on a colleague's patient, talented art student Henry, who announces his intention to kill himself at midnight on Saturday. As Sam pursues Henry, hoping to save him, the world around him begins to fracture and distort and Sam's mad world impinges on Henry's rational one. What's the meaning of the flashbacks to a car accident on the Brooklyn Bridge? Why are dead people seemingly alive? A hallucinatory New York becomes a dark, fractured, dislocated landscape. An intrig find out more...

Adrien Brody plays an amnesiac Gulf War veteran, who's either had part of his brain blown away, is a restless spirit or an angel, take it your own way, sentenced to life in a mental institution for a brutal killing he may, or may not, have done. There he is subjected to barbaric drug and sensory deprivation treatment during which he finds himself in 2007 with a girl, Keira Knightley, he met once in the past, a future, moreover, in which he discovers he has been dead for 14 years. How did he die? find out more...

It's the end of WW2 and highly strung Grace and her two photosensitive children are awaiting the return of her husband. Grace lives an isolated and twilght existence but after the arrival of three uninvited servants she becomes convinced that the house is haunted by malevolent spirits. The Others is a stylish, spooky, highly intelligent ghost story that builds up the tension without having to resort to blood and guts.

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